ISBN: 1235690873

[EAN: 9781235690877], Neubuch, LEIGH HUNT,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free … Plus…

[EAN: 9781235690877], Neubuch, LEIGH HUNT,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816. Excerpt: . . . Now, while your generous hearts have not been grieved Perhaps with something not to be retrieved, And ye have still, within, the power of gladness, From self-resentment free, and retrospective madness! So did they think;--but partly from delay, Partly from fancied ignorance of the way, And most from feeling the bare contemplation Give them fresh need of mutual consolation, They scarcely tried to see each other less, And did but meet with deeper tenderness, Living, from day to day, as they were used, Only with graver thoughts, and smiles reduced, And sighs more frequent, which, when one would heave, The other longed to start up and receive. For whether some suspicion now had crossed Giovannis mind, or whether he had lost More of his temper lately, he would treat His wife with petty scorns, and starts of heat, And to his own omissions proudly blind, Oerlook the pains she took to make him kind, And yet be angry, if he thought them less; He found reproaches in her meek distress, Forcing her silent tears, and then resenting, Then almost angrier grown from half repenting, And hinting at the last, that some there were Better perhaps than he, and tastefuller, And these, for what he knew, --he little cared, --Might please her, and be pleased, though he despaired. Then would he quit the room, and half disdain Himself for being in so harsh a strain, And venting thus his temper on a woman; Yet not the more for that changed he in common, Or took more pains to please her, and be near: --What! should he truckle to a womans tear 1 At times like these the princess tried to shun The face of Paulo as too kind a one; And shutting up her tears with resolute sigh, Would walk into the air, and see the sky, And feel about her all the garden green, And hear the birds that shot th. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

2012, ISBN: 9781235690877

General Books, Taschenbuch, Publiziert: 2012-02-04T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 0.13 kg, Kategorien, Bücher, General Books, 2012